[Capitalism2003]

I don't get to read much as I'd like but a picture someone posted of the new Coulter book reminded me how much I enjoy it. I did a little browsing and found that Ebay and Amazon have huge collections of books on sale...new and old. I'd just like to get some recommendations. I checked out "Bush at War" at the library and was bored halfway through it...Woodward seems to have the amazing ability to read the minds of everyone in the Bush administration...got old after a while. Anyway, I loved Slander by Ann Coulter. I thought it was just awesome and I can't wait to get her new book. I also finished "Showdown" by Larry Elder a few weeks ago and thought it was excellent as well...highly recommended! I also finished a little $5 Neal Boortz book in about an hour a while back. The only fiction book I've ever enjoyed was Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, and I don't think anyone will ever be able to touch her in that area...sooo I'm looking for some good non fiction stuff similar to Coulter/Elder/Horowitz. Any suggestions? Anyone read any of the stuff from Walter Williams? He's another libertarian I really like. I figure if a few Freepers were to post their all time favs, it would give me and other newbies a good list to get started on. Suggestions?

[zarf]

The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test. Hands Down.

[Mr. Mojo]

The Road to Serfdom, by F.A. Hayek

[Ipberg]

The Bible

[marvlus]

Stephen King's "The Stand". I've read this book at least 4 times. The book that pits Good versus Evil, and Good wins.

[BibChr]

The Bible, all sixty-six books, from Genesis to Revelation.

Someone had to say it... and it had to be me.

I've read and liked a lot of books, but this one is a category by itself. It is by an immeasurable margin the most formative of my worldview, in every particular.

I can't recommend it highly enough.

Dan
Why I Am (Still) a Christian

[billorites]

All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren, is the Great American Novel.

It's fiction, but topical insight on recent politics and human nature.

[toenail]

The Underground History of American Education, by John Taylor Gatto. A lot of it is online, if you'd like to peruse it first.

[c-b 1]

The Bible!

[gitmo]

The Bible
Unlimited Access
Dune
Star Warriors (a history of Reagan's SDI scientists)

[copycat]

Although it is fiction, I recommend reading "Animal Farm" by George Orwell if you never have. It's very short, around 100 pages and can be read in one night.

I don't read non-fiction political books, as I never have time...Free Republic is all the non-fiction I need!

[GOP_Raider]

"The Naked Communist" by W. Cleon Skousen. It's a little dated (predates Cuban Missile Crisis), but it goes into detail on the mindset of communist thought and shows ordinary Americans what we can do to expose and combat communist thought.

[squirt]

Never without Heros

[StriperSniper]

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "

[SonnyBubba]

"Blue Highways"
William "Least Heat" Moon.

[SamAdams76]

An easy answer would by J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings. I have read that book several times and could easily read it again. Great literature despite what the literature snobs might say about it. And the movies, as good as they are, are no substitute at all for reading the book itself.

But more challenging fare lies in the works of Winston Churchill. Either his 7-volume set The Second World War or his 4-volume History of the English Speaking Peoples are highly recommended. I find the WW2 series especially fascinating as Churchill himself was at the center of many of the events. As thorough an account of that war as you could ever want.

[what's up]

Anybody read "Roosevelt's Secret War?"

Loved "John Adams" by David McCullough which I read last year.

[bballbob]

Modern Times by Paul Johnson

Radical Son by David Horowitz

[InvisibleChurch]

B-sides the Bible, there is The Charm School; Animal Farm; first 3 vols of the Foundation; Gold Coast; and Mark Twain's Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses

[MatthewViti]

Earth As It Is In Heaven

Catcher In The Rye

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

[Chi-townChief]

John Stormer's "None Dare Call It Treason" was probably the book that most influenced my political thinking.